Cold War Primary Sources | Confrontation Builds

• Harry S. Truman: Special Message to Congress on Greece and Turkey
• George C. Marshall
• Harry S. Truman: Special Message to Congress on Threat to Freedom of Europe

Aclear announcement of a new U.S. policy toward the Soviets came in early 1947, triggered by events in the eastern Mediterranean. In Greece, civil war raged between communist-backed resistance fighters and forces from Great Britain that were attempting to support British influence in Greece. Turkey had also been under British influence during World War II (1939–45) and in need of the British aid offered. On February 21,...